The CyberHunt workshop is a hybrid event, meaning remote participation is also encouraged.

SCOPE:

The Workshop on Cyber Threat Intelligence and Hunting (CyberHunt 2025) provides a dedicated forum for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers from academia, industry, and government to present and discuss advances in Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) and its applications across the broader cybersecurity landscape, with a particular emphasis on AI-driven approaches.

CyberHunt 2025 will be held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data 2025) in Macau, China, December 8–11, 2025.


TOPICS:

We invite authors to submit original, previously unpublished research on Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) and its applications, with particular emphasis on the use of AI and ML to advance the broader cybersecurity landscape.

Focus areas include, but are not limited to:

-Adversary and defense tradecraft and TTPs
-Attribution (identifying, associating, or tracing malicious activity)
-Big data and datasets for CTI
-Collecting and processing data/information to produce CTI
-Generating (revelation) and utilizing IOCs, including detection engineering
-Intelligence (knowledge) representation, management, and dissemination (symbolic-AI/ontologies/templating approaches)
-Intelligence-driven incident response
-Intelligence-driven red teaming
-Intelligence-driven threat hunting
-Legal implications, accountability, privacy, and ethics for AI and CTI
-The use of Large Language Models - and agentic approaches in CTI
-Machine-readable-based CTI (including relevant standards)
-Open-source tools (associated with the scientific method) for CTI and threat hunting
-Political (cyber politics) and geopolitical aspects, and decision-making
-Threat-informed security automation
-Visualization techniques for CTI

Additional special topic of interest this year:
-AI-based threat detection in Mobile Networks

IMPORTANT DATES:

November 2, 2025: Due date for full workshop papers submission
November 12, 2025: Notification of paper acceptance to authors
November 22, 2025: Camera-ready of accepted papers
Dec 8-11, 2025: Workshop & main conference


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Workshop Chair
Prof. Vasileios Mavroeidis, University of Oslo (UiO), Norway

Program Committee Chair
Dr. Tamas Bisztray, University of Oslo (UiO), Norway

Publicity Chair
Mateusz Zych, PhD Researcher, University of Oslo (UiO), Norway


Program Committee
Bertalan Borsos, ELTE

Robert Chetwyn, University of Oslo

Maria Christopoulou, Demokritos

William Corrias, Sapienza University of Rome

Denis Donadel, University of Verona

Richard A. Dubniczky, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem

Charles Frick, JHUAPL

Gudmund Grov, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI)

Nils Gruschka, University of Oslo

Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Alexios Lekidis, University of Thessaly

Ryan Marinelli, University of Oslo

Fabio Martinelli, Institute for Informatics and Telematics, National Research Council of Italy (CNR)

Vasileios Mavroeidis, University of Oslo

Boubakr Nour, Ericsson Security Research

Dimitra Papatsaroucha, Hellenic Mediterranean University

Konstantinos Rantos, International Hellenic University

Simone Soderi, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca

Norbert Tihanyi, Technology Innovation Institute

Rebeka Toth, University of Oslo

Magnus Wiik Eckhoff, University of Oslo

Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus

Mateusz Zych, University of Oslo